Admit­tedly this has been on the Coulson Macleod agenda for some time. Our cus­tom­ers keep ask­ing for it. And now, finally, we’ve almost done it…

designed two more typo­graphic prints for our ‘Dec­ades’ col­lec­tion; ‘The Nineties’ and ‘The Nought­ies’. Yay!

And, even more excit­ing news, we’re also launch­ing a bespoke ver­sion too. We’ll obvi­ously show you the fin­ished prints when they’re ready.

These are the three exist­ing typo­graphic prints in our ‘Dec­ades’ collection…

Our three new typo­graphic prints will fea­ture brand-new, even love­lier and chunkier, frames. Pro­fes­sion­ally framed by a Fine Art Trade Guild member.

So in pre­par­a­tion for the launch, we’ve put our framed ‘Dec­ades’ col­lec­tion (with the old-style pic­ture frame) in our Clear­ance Page. So don’t hes­it­ate if you fancy pick­ing up a bar­gain, num­bers are lim­ited, and when they’ve sold out… well they’re sold out.

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Our very pop­u­lar ‘Winter Tree’ col­lec­tion of typo­graphic prints has now just got a little bit bigger…

Our ‘Winter Tree’ prints fea­ture a hand­made frame and pan­elled back­board made from reclaimed wood — Vic­torian roof tim­bers no less. Paint is applied by hand and then over-printed with dis­tressed image and typo­graphy. So very Coulson Macleod.

Our ‘Winter Tree’ col­lec­tion of six art­works has an unlim­ited print quantity.

We pride ourselves on the fact that the planks used to make the print vary in size and that we keep any defects in the tim­ber to add to the charm and char­ac­ter. We love knot holes, nail holes, warps and water marks. And we know our cus­tom­ers do too.

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One of our lim­ited edi­tion typo­graphic prints, ‘Nobody Puts Baby In A Corner’ fea­tures in the Decem­ber issue of the United Arab Emir­ates magazine, Emir­ates Home.

This is the third time Coulson Macleod has been fea­tured in Emir­ates Home, and the second time editor, Penny McCormick, has chosen us for her Ed’s Choice page. So a massive thank you Penny, we’re clearly big fans of each other. The super-talented Penny is also editor of Harper’s Bazaar Interiors.

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Great art­icle in the Sunday Tele­graph a few weeks back that said we should be very excited, because this sea­son is all about the tra­di­tional, mixed with flea-market finds.

And we love flea-market finds. Which is why at Coulson Macleod we try to recre­ate this with many of our art collections.

Hand­made. Hand painted. Reclaimed wood. Dis­tressed typography.

The key theme for the autumn/winter 2010 interior is “heir­loom”. The art­icle says we’re crav­ing time­less pieces that will look just as good a dec­ade or two down the line, and retail­ers are grant­ing our wish with hand­made accessor­ies using tra­di­tional fabrics.

Which is exactly what we at Coulson Macleod are doing.

We com­mis­sion local crafts­men to hand­make our dis­tressed typo­graphic prints. We com­bine their tra­di­tional skills with our con­tem­por­ary art. So again, we’re bang on trend!

One of the com­pan­ies high­lighted in the piece is Anta, who we fea­tured back in August. Anta has been a per­sonal love of mine for many years. In fact, here is my col­lec­tion of their slightly wonky, hand­painted, stone­ware mugs…

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Once again Coulson Macleod’s typo­graphic art has been chosen by interi­ors style bible Elle Dec­or­a­tion to fea­ture in their fab­ulous magazine.

ELLE Dec­or­a­tion, Novem­ber 2010 issue.

ELLE Dec­or­a­tion, Novem­ber 2010 issue.

Elle Dec­or­a­tion chose ‘The Roar of Tree and Crack of Branches’ typo­graphic print from our Winter Trees collection.

We hand make the frame and pan­elled back­board from reclaimed wood. Actu­ally the wood used to be Vic­torian roof tim­bers. How cool is that? We paint the wood and print on top with dis­tressed image and typography.

Each art­work is totally unique. And totally unique to Coulson Macleod.

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Intro­du­cing Coulson Macleod’s latest little typo­graphic creation…

brown lug­gage label tags.

Front and back of tag for our prints framed with solid oak

Front of brown lug­gage label on our ‘Soul­mate’ print

Front and back of tag for our prints made from reclaimed wood

Back of tag shown on our ‘The Roar of Trees and Crack of Branches’ print

We are so in love with them. We attach each tag to the back of our art prints using a lovely vintage-looking nail. So now when you buy one of our prints as a gift, the per­son who receives it will know all about the piece of art you’re giv­ing them.

And intro­du­cing Coulson Macleod’s second little creation…

brown paper wraps for our Zodiac typo­graphic prints.

Coulson Macleod’s lime­stone ‘Zodiac’ print

Coulson Macleod’s lime­stone ‘Zodiac’ print

Back of Coulson Macleod’s lime­stone ‘Zodiac’ print

And we really love them too. Our Zodiac art prints are now dressed and ready to put on the shop shelf or to present to someone as the per­fect gift.

So much love for such simple items. But then we’re simple people here at Coulson Macleod HQ.

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Yes, that’s right. Four. An unlucky num­ber if you’re Chinese. But not if you love Coulson Macleod’s typo­graphic art. Launched 1^st Septem­ber, our four new collections…

‘Wilde Grey’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made typo­graphic art on reclaimed wood.

‘Wilde Blue’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made typo­graphic art on reclaimed wood.

‘Wilde Red’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made typo­graphic art on reclaimed wood.

‘Nap­kin Not Ser­vi­ette’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made typo­graphic art.

‘Lunch Not Din­ner’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made typo­graphic art.

‘Pud­ding Not Dessert’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made typo­graphic art.

‘Hel­vetica’. Coulson Macleod’s typo­graphic art on Vic­torian roof timbers.

‘Futura’. Coulson Macleod’s typo­graphic art on Vic­torian roof timbers.

‘Times’. Coulson Macleod’s typo­graphic art on Vic­torian roof timbers.

‘John Len­non’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made solid oak framed art.

‘Bob Dylan’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made solid oak framed art.

‘Keith Richards’. Coulson Macleod’s hand­made solid oak framed art.

Ja, vi elsker dette landet? It’s Nor­we­gian. It trans­lates as, Yes, we love this coun­try. This is the title of their national anthem. And this is how Coulson Macleod feels about Norway.

Why do we love Norway?

Actu­ally the ques­tion should be, why does Nor­way love Coulson Macleod?

We’ve just taken an order from our fourth stock­ist there. Coulson and I are think­ing a trip to Nor­way is in order. We can visit our gorgeous-looking stock­ists in Oslo, Ber­gen, Gjøvik, and Nit­te­dal (pictured)…

and this gor­geous look­ing country…

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Today is a good day. Why? I hear you cry.

Well folks, we have beaten our sales record. We have sold more prints in August than in any other month in the entire his­tory of Coulson Macleod. And we’ve been up and run­ning for almost eight­een months.

We have a white­board on our office wall. Every time we make a sale we wipe off the old num­ber and write up the new one. I say we, but actu­ally I usu­ally do this, partly because my hand­writ­ing is neater, but mainly because it gives me a huge amount of pleas­ure. Every month we write down how many we’ve sold, whether they’ve been sold via Not On The High Street or through shops or if they’re bespoke and how many came via one of our adverts in Elle Dec­or­a­tion or Livin­getc.

We love our white­board. We quite often catch each other star­ing at it fondly. Because every month the fig­ures go up. And that is super exciting.

And this month, only half way through August I might point out, we’ve notched up the biggest num­ber since our records began. To let you into a secret, we only star­ted record­ing this on the board since Novem­ber, which was when we star­ted selling in ser­i­ous num­bers and the idea of a white­board sprang into our heads.

So ladies and gen­tle­men, tonight we may clink our glasses and say a little toast to our little boom­ing busi­ness that we love so much.

A bit of a strange post today. It’s all about packaging.

Coulson Macleod HQ has been try­ing to buy shred­ded newspaper.

Why?

Well firstly by its very nature it’s recycled. Which is good. And it’s in keep­ing with what we do. Typo­graphic pack­aging. Perfect.

But can I find a com­pany that does it? No.

We recently ordered some plants from a nurs­ery in Corn­wall. Inside the box was shred­ded news­pa­per. And we thought how much bet­ter that would be than using bubble wrap to keep our art safe on its journey.

So I Googled. And Googled. But could not find any­one that sells it. I con­tac­ted our local coun­cil. They didn’t provide a solu­tion. So I con­tac­ted the nurs­ery and they buy it as animal bed­ding. But the com­pany they buy from only sup­plies Corn­wall. Then I found a com­pany in Scot­land. But their min­imum order was 20 x 20kg bales. Yikes! We’re not farm­ers and we don’t have a spare barn.

So if any­one read­ing this knows of a com­pany, prefer­ably within the Mid­lands, that sells clean shred­ded news­pa­per, please let us know.